Palazzo Litta
The Palazzo Litta , also Palazzo Arese-Litta , an aristocratic palace in the center of Milan , located between Castello Sforzesco and San Maurizio on Corso Magenta 24, is one of the most elaborate baroque palaces in the city and impresses with its richly designed facade, which was glued in front of the 18th century.
The architect Francesco Maria Richini built the core of the complex around six inner courtyards for Count Bartolomeo Arese from one of the most influential Milanese families during the Spanish rule of Lombardy in 1642–1648 . Around the middle of the 18th century the building was inherited by the Litta family. In 1740 Carlo Giuseppe Merlo built the imposing, double-flighted staircase that leads up to the piano nobile . A chapel, completed in 1671, was later converted into a private theater, the oldest in town, which is still active today. Between 1752 and 1761, Bartolomeo Bolli erected a new Rococo- style facade richly decorated with imaginative stucco window frames and three-dimensional atlantic figures in front of the building .
The palazzo was the center of social life in the city for many years. For a time it served the railway administration, today it is the seat of the Milanese monument preservation office .
literature
- Heinz Schomann : Lombardy. Art monuments and museums. (Reclams Kunstführer Vol. 1,1), Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, pp. 353-354.
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Coordinates: 45 ° 27 ′ 57.8 " N , 9 ° 10 ′ 41.4" E